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Update: Emma Watson may have considered her graduation a “rebellion,” but when it came to the ceremony itself, she played it safe. It turns out the woman in cap and gown seated next to Watson during the ceremony was actually an undercover bodyguard. Buzzfeed has a photographic breakdown of the event here.

Emma Watson graduates! She of Harry Potter and Noah fame graduated today with a degree from Brown University and proudly posted this photo of herself in cap and gown on Twitter. Watson famously said that pursuing her undergraduate degree at Brown was a form of rebellion:

Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on
being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn’t advisable to
go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it
probably wasn’t wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a
coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.

Though she originally enrolled in 2009, Watson took some time off to pursue her film career and finish promoting the Harry Potter franchise. Watson has also described how Brown University in particular helped with both her busy schedule and preserving that attitude of rebellion:

I really like the fact that it has a very open curriculum, that there
aren’t any requirements. Really, I’ve kind of been in charge of my own
education since I started out on 'Potter' when I was 9 or 10, and I
liked that I could design my own major if I wanted to, and I could
take independent studies if I wanted to on subjects that weren’t
necessarily in the curriculum. I did an independent study on the
psychology and philosophy of how and why we fall in love, which was
awesome.